Carson City, Nevada

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Carson City County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 10 records

• McKeen Motor Car #70National Historic Landmark · listed 2005
• Adams Houselisted 1999
• Belknap Houselisted 1997
• Dr. William Henry Cavell Houselisted 1987
• Dat So La Lee Houselisted 1994
• Olcovich-Meyers Houselisted 1993
• George L. Sanford Houselisted 1994
• Virginia and Truckee Railroad Depot-Carson Citylisted 1998
• Virginia and Truckee Railway Locomotive #27listed 2004
• West Side Historic Districtlisted 2011

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 24 shown

• Abraham Curry House, 406 North Nevada Street, Carson City, Carson Cityfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Alfred Chartz House, 412 North Nevada Street, Carson City, Carson Cityfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• David Smaill House, 313 West Ann Street, Carson City, Carson City (Independent City)federal building survey, 5 photographs
• E. D. Sweeney Building, 102 South Curry Street, Carson City, Carson Cityfederal building survey, 4 photographs
• First United Methodist Church, 200 North Division Street, Carson City, Carson Cityfederal building survey, 9 photographs
• G. W. G. Ferris House, 311 West Third Street, Carson City, Carson Cityfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Henry Marvin Yerington House, 512 North Division Street, Carson City, Carson Cityfederal building survey, 11 photographs
• James D. Roberts House, 1207 North Carson Street, Carson City, Carson Cityfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• King Street, General View, 1880, Carson City, Carson Cityfederal building survey, 2 photographs
• Kings Canyon Road, Carson City, Carson Cityfederal building survey, 29 photographs
• Lew M. Meder House, 308 North Nevada Street, Carson City, Carson Cityfederal building survey, 5 photographs
• Mark Twain House, Division & Spear Streets, Carson City, Carson City (Independent City)federal building survey, 1 photograph

Every surveyed structure in Carson City

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1891 USGS Carson quadrangle1:125000
• 1893 USGS Carson quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
• 1893 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:125000
• 1956 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
• 1959 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Reno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1968 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1974 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:24000
• 1979 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Carson City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Carson City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,094 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Eagle Station (historical)
• Carson Hot Springs
• Mill Creek Settlement (historical)
• Stewart
• New Empire
• Empire

Every fire recorded in Carson City

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Carson City: 26 past producers, 11 occurrences, 9 prospects, 3 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Carson City

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carson City in 26 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 21 heavy rain, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 dust devil. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Carson City

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 863976. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.